Color-picture and method of making the same.



E. BISSEILL. COLOR PICTURE AND METHOD,QF MAKING THE SAME.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 19, 1913.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ELIZABETH BISSELL, F DORCHESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR T0 DEN NISON MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPOEATION OF MASSACHUSETTS.

COLOR-PICTURE AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME.

' a citizen of the United States, and resident Cir ' of Dorchester, in the county of Sufi'olk and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Color-Pictures and the Method of Making the Same, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists in a new method of making color-pictures and the product of the said method, and may be employed either for educational or amusement purposes in the kindergarten or nursery.

The method affords a means of artistic training in the elements of outline drawing and color contrast,and also possesses educational. value in that it enforces observation of simple dominant elements of a color picture to the exclusion of inconsequential and unimportant details, so that in addition to giving training in the elements of drawing,outline and colorcontrast this method also afi'o'rds elementary training in artistic values. I

In the drawings hereto annexed which illustrate my improved method and the product thereof,-Figure 1 shows in plan thearrangement of materials preliminary to the formation of mutually fitting color contrasted elements which are to be combined to form the completed picture; Fig. 2 shows in plan the mutually fitting color contrasted elements selected from the several members composing the materials shown in Fig. 1: and Fig. 3 shows the finished picture made up of the several elements illustrated in Fig. 2.

The preferred materials consist of a plurality. of variously colored sheets of thin paper, 1, 2, 3 and 4, and a sheet of thicker white or plain paper 5. -These sheets are superposed one upon the other and temporarily held together in register as by wire clips F, the plain or white sheet on top. Upon the plain sheet 5 there is depicted in. outline a landscape or what not, wherein the several spaces defined by the outlines are to be reproduced in appropriate color by correspondingly outlined portions on the colored sheets 1, '2, 3 and 4. In making up this composite sheet of material, the sheets 1, '2, 3 and t will be selected with a view to, providing appropriate colors for the several outlined portions of the drawing or fig- Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 19, 1913. Serial No. 768,417.

Paton-Jed Feb. 24., 1914.

are represented on the sheet 5. For instance, the drawing on the sheet 5 being a landscape, the sheet 1 of tissue paper may be red to furnish the color for that element in the picture marked C in Fig. 1,'which represents a mill; the sheet Q-may be blue to provide the proper color for the sky area A; the sheet 3 may be yellow to furnish the color to fill the area marked C and the sheet 4 may be green to provide the proper color for the foliage area B and meadow area D. As shown in the drawings, but one sheet of green is provided for the-foliage and meadow, but if desired one may be made 4 light green and the other dark green by adding another sheet. The several sheets being securely clipped together, the simple outlines ot the drawing on sheet 5 are cut out,

the clips F removed, and the irregularly shaped portions of the several sheets sorted. By this means there will be, in addition to the portion. cut from the plain white sheet 5, four colored pieces of identical shapecorresponding to the surface marked A in Fig. 1, and of these four pieces obviously the blue one should be selected as a member to go into the composite picture originally contemplated. Likewise, of the several pieces having the outline of the area B,- Fig'l, that one which provides the proper dark green for foliage is selected, the pieces correspond ing to the areas marked D which are light green are selected for the field or meadow in the picture, and in the same manner the red and yellow pieces corresponding in shape tothe areas C and C (Fig. l) are set apart for use in making up the final picture. The selected colored members or elements are then fitted together and secured to a suitable supporting surface with an adhesive in such manner that each element is inclosed in or bordered by a matrix composed of the other elements. For the purpose of lending an additional attractiveness to the'finished color-picture the preferred supporting surface for the several color contrasted elements will consist of a sheet of glass, as G in Fig. 3, which may be hung in a window or held up to the light so that the translucent tissue papers of which'the several cont-rasted color elen'ients are formed, will assume a luminosity and therefore heightened effect. If it be desired to supplement the color masses thus produced by a few details, these cational value for children for several reasons. .At first the outline drawings used as guide sheets may be printed ready to hand and the children made to observe that the several outlined-areas are simple and free from details of no value. Then the child may select from a supply of diifer- ,ent colored tissue paper the colors deemed appropriate to the several areas outlined on the guide drawing. This exercise of selec- ,tion cultivates ;-imagination and increases the power of visualizatlon. When the color.

sheets ha'vebeen, thus selected and the outlines cut in the manner above described, the selective exercise is repeated with'a difi'erent aspect. The pieces into which the guide sheethas been'cut may with advantage be asu .sembledso as to restore the original prlnt or drawin and with this as an assistant the sha esgf tissue paper corresponding to the out ined" ortions of the uide sheet are selected an sorted. Heret e exercise involves detection of similarity in shapes irrespective of difi'erences in color, and calls into requi- Y sition a diflerent faculty-of discrimination from that previously exercised in the selection of the various colors which are to compose the finalpictur'e. When the various pieces of tissue paper have, been sorted, the

exercise in color election and picture composition is repeat (1, this time involving the usejofmemory; in the selection from among ,the various colored pieces of each shape that 'color which was ori 'nally determined'on for skies, .folia ge fie d or whatnot. The

final exeriseinvo ves manual skill and calls into requisition the coordination of muscular, tactual and visual sense. If the child commits an error at any stage of the above described process, this error will be manitested emphatically by the appearance of the finished picture, for unless the child be so unfortunate as to be color blind the appearance, for instance, of a dark green sky and light green foliage in the picture produced will probably impress itself on the childs mind so that a repetition of such an error will be highly unlikely. After exercises of this sort have been gone through with previously prepared drawings or prints, children who have acquired skill and certainty in making up composite colorpictures in this manner may be advanced to an exercise in which they-produce their own .guidegawings eithw constructively from theiriewiriimagination, or better, by drawing from an actual landscape or life. Here the education in values is much more em hasized than before, since the tendency o the children will be to import details impossible of execution into their drawings, and a few attemptsto incorporate such details will be most effective to convince the pupil of the futility of detail and the advantage of holding to simple masses of values. The process of self-education-by means of the materials 7 themselves will probably be more eflective than constant supervision and precept.

It will be clear that if a sufficient number of selected colored sheets are employed, the elements cut out in the manner described may be fitted together to form a number of finished pictures all correctly colored but.

difi'ering one from another. For example,

of gray, brown, green, black and slate, two different but correctly colored pictures may be made of the cut out element-s one col red as shown in the drawings, and the other laV-' ing a gray sky, a brown field, green foliage, black mill and slate path.

It will be found that children who acquire proficiency in the composition and'e'xecution of color-pictures by this method will. pass very easily to the effective handling of other if there be added to the sheets shown, sheets media, such as water colors or pastel, and the training afi'orded by the method above described will almost automatically train the pupil correctly in canons of simplicity and directness, in outline, drawing, perspective, discrimination of color, and sense of values.

What 'I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

' 1. The method of making color-pictures which consists in superposing a plurality of sheets of thin material, e. g. paper, of different colors, cutting through the severalsheets on selected picture-outlines, and securing to a supporting surface several colorcontrasted elements thus produced in relation corresponding to'their mutually fitting outlines, p

2. The method of making color-pictures which consists in superposing a plurality of sheets of thin material, 6. 9. paper, of different colors, cutting through the several sheets on selected picture-outlines, and securing to a transparent supporting surface several color-contrasted elements. thus produced in relation corresponding to their mutually fitting outlines.

Signed by me atBoston', Massachusetts, this 13th day of May, 1913.

ELIZABETH BISSELL. 

